In this section, we collect recipes sent to us for building Randy Chapman's
Java port on various current Linux distributions:
John Franks <john@math.nwu.edu> writes that he succeeded with the
following steps:
- Get linux-x86.jdk.static-motif.tar.gz from
ftp://www.blackdown.org/pub/Java/linux/
and uncompress it and untar it. (The filenames you must fetch
have changes for the 1.0 beta JDK.)
- Get libc.5.2.18.bin.tar.gz (binary distribution, not source) from
ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/packages/GCC/
Uncompress and untar and copy the files in the lib subdirectory
of the top level of the hierarchy to /lib. Make sure
that /lib/libc.so.5 is a symlink to this file.
- Get ld-so.1.7.14.tar.gz from ftp://ftp.ods.com/linux/
Uncompress and untar it and run "instldso.sh" which is
in the top level of the resulting hierarchy.
You should now be able to compile and try the "hello world" program
and applet from Sun following the instructions at
http://java.sun.com/progGuide/index.html.
Steve Greene <sgreene@access.digex.net> reports success doing
the following steps. I have edited the recipe slightly, so blame any
mistakes on me. The `JDK' he refers to is the Chapman port of the
Java Developer's Kit.
- From a Red Hat mirror site, get the rpm available for
ld.so.1.7.14. To find it, check any RedHat mirror site for:
/pub/mirrors/redhat-2.1/updates/RPMS/ld.so-1.7.14-i386.rpm
I know it is available at ftp.pht.com, ftp.caldera.com. and is
probably at the other RedHat mirrors as well. Grab it, and
do `rpm -Uvh ld.so-1.7.14-1.i386.rpm' on your system.
- Red Hat 2.0 and Caldera Preview 2 users may need the `which'
program (it's called by some of the scripts in the JDK).
An rpm file for `which' is available at the usual Red Hat
mirror sites as part of the Red Hat 2.1 distribution files.
Get and install which-1.0.i386.rpm. RedHat 2.1 users
should already have which on their system or available
within their original distribution.
- Get the tar file(s) for the statically-linked JDK.
Untar it from a convenient point. I put mine in
/usr/local, so the untar creates /usr/local/java/....
- So you can run java as someone other than root (this is a
good idea!), do `chmod 666 /dev/zero'. Red Hat and Caldera
have the wrong permissions set on this device out of the box.
- If you haven't already, run ldconfig as root to load the new
libraries. If you do "ldconfig -v" you can verify you have
all the libraries loaded. (At least we don't have to build
an ELF system first!)
- Make sure you're logged in as a user (e.g. non-root). Start X-
windows, open an X-Term, and try something!
Stefan Middendorf writes: Unifix is a popular German-language Linux
distribution. There are a few distributions based on it: Linux Universe,
sold in USA, Linux 4U, currently only distributed in Germany and Linux FT
in Britain. This recipe is known to work for Unifix 1.7, Linux 4U 1st
Edition, Linux Universe 2nd Edition, and Linux FT 1.1.
- Put linux-x86.jdk.static-motif.tar.gz from
ftp://www.blackdown.org/pub/Java/linux/
in /usr/local and uncompress it and untar it.
- Change the first line of the script .java_wrapper
from PRG=`which $0` >/dev/null 2>&1 to
PRG=`type $0 | cut -d ' ' -f 3` >/dev/null 2>&1
- Get libc-5.2.18.bin.tar.gz (I succeeded with libc-5.2.16.bin.tar.gz,
too), extract and uncompress it in the / drectory.
- Get ld-so.1.7.12.tar.gz from tsx-11.mit.edu (or any mirror site)
and uncompress and untar it, e.g. in /usr/local. Change to the
resulting directory and run instldso.sh. This will also run ldconfig.
Probably newer versions of ld-so will work too.
- Add /usr/local/java/bin to the PATH environment variable.
- Get netscape-v20b4-export.i486-unknown-linux.tar.Z,
extract and uncompress it in /usr/local/<yourNetscapeDir>.
- Create a Link in /usr/local/bin to ../<yourNetscapeDir>/netscape.
- Put /usr/local/<yourNetscapeDir>/moz2_0.zip in /usr/local/lib/netscape/.
As an alternative to changing your PATH, Ralf Strobel suggests:
- Copy the scripts .java_wrapper and appletviewer and the links @java
@javac, @javadoc, @javap, and @jdb from /usr/local/java/bin to /usr/local/bin
and you can use them wherever you are.
- In /java/bin/i586 you can add a script called `javadoc`
#!/bin/sh
`dirname $0`/java sun.tools.javadoc.Main -d <yourhtmldir> $
where if you are user jrandom, <yourhtmldir> would be
jrandom/.java-html.